Hacker News Daily — July 13, 2026
30 stories · July 13, 2026
In this issue
- 1
LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
techcrunch.com · 383 points · Discussion
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is reportedly ending its deal with Flock Safety, a surveillance company that helps law enforcement track vehicles using thousands of its license plate cameras…
- 2
GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
nebusec.ai · 383 points · Discussion
UAF = Use After Free ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_pointer )
- 3
Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
get-inscribe.com · 339 points · Discussion
The result, up front Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer is the most accurate on-device speech engine we tested. It beat every Whisper model we ship, including Whisper Small, on both the clean and the noisy…
- 4
A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese
jivx.com · 306 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 5
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
237 points · Discussion
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
- 6
Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it
werd.io · 178 points · Discussion
Democracy "After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline." Link: Trump dismantled a…
- 7
The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed
fabiensanglard.net · 171 points · Discussion
June 1, 2026 The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed The 90's was a decade of considerable improvement in the world of video-game consoles [1]. Each new model brought advanced processing power and…
- 8
Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)
github.com · 120 points · Discussion
Convert semantic HTML fragments to native, editable Word documents (OOXML): paragraphs, runs, lists, tables, images. Not screenshots or layout hacks. Live demo: dom-docx.com. Try the converter, browse…
- 9
Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode
scottwillsey.com · 110 points · Discussion
Lately, I’ve heard several Apple related podcasters talk about how bad Xcode is, and how Apple needs to make vibe-coding Mac and iOS apps better by making Xcode less inscrutable. They’re not wrong,…
- 10
The real prices of frontier models. Tokens * Price, right?
playcode.io · 88 points · Discussion
Every model's pricing page shows one number: dollars per million tokens. That number is not comparable across vendors, because a "token" is not a fixed amount of text. Each model's tokenizer cuts the…
- 11
Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads
esologic.com · 80 points · Discussion
Decommissioned NVIDIA enterprise GPUs are one of the last remaining sources of idle VRAM. K80 with 24GB of GDDR5 sells for $60, P100-16GB for around $75 and V100-16GB for under $200. Shortcomings and…
- 12
Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator
lcamtuf.substack.com · 76 points · Discussion
Last year, I published an article titled “It’s hard to build an oscillator”: The title alluded to the fact that there’s no shortage of oscillator circuits on the internet, but many of them use unusual…
- 13
Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here
github.com · 72 points · Discussion
Desktop APP 2.0.1 (Beta Testing) Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here! 🎉 After a long wait, our first Logseq 2.0 beta release is finally here. We know many of you have been looking forward to trying…
- 14
Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
whois.com · 70 points · Discussion
Domain Name: t.me Registry Domain ID: REDACTED Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com/domains/search.aspx?ci=8990 Updated Date: 2026-07-13T19:24:55Z Creation…
- 15
Ancient Roman Board Game
ludus-coriovalli.web.app · 52 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 16
Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?
cakehonolulu.github.io · 51 points · Discussion
Preface I couldn't start this entry in any other way possible but by thanking everyone who enjoyed the Linux on Jaguar post. Also special props to the linuxmd project again. It was a very fun…
- 17
Thunderbird Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback
blog.thunderbird.net · 33 points · Discussion
A few weeks ago, we conducted hour-long conversations with 10 of our users to dig deep into how you manage your preferences and configurations in Thunderbird desktop. While this specific research…
- 18
Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents
github.com · 33 points · Discussion
🐟 BillAI Bass Builder Guide Powered by Strands Agents Bidirectional Streaming + Amazon Nova 2 Sonic billai-bass-demo-strands.mp4 Turn a Big Mouth Billy Bass into a real-time voice assistant: you…
- 19
Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
nobie.com · 32 points · Discussion
It's time to fall back in love with your craft. The easiest way to open xlsx on Mac. No account. Download and start working. That's it. Free forever For everything you can do in Excel or Google…
- 20
Tune Code Before Your Garbage Collector
blog.vanillajava.blog · 28 points · Discussion
Why You Should Tune Code Before Your Garbage Collector Optimising your memory allocations in Java could make far more difference than your choice of Garbage Collector and may even change which is the…
- 21
TFTP Honey Pot Results
bruceediger.com · 21 points · Discussion
My TFTP honey pot has been running for over a month, continuously on my $5 a month VPS, and intermittently on my Dell R530 home server. It’s time to see what surprises it has captured. When the TFTP…
- 22
Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL
github.com · 19 points · Discussion
Two weeks ago I was on my babymoon in Corfu, Greece. While in transit, I was overseeing a GSoC intern submit an important feature to my array database library, Xarray-SQL. He added `to_dataset()`,…
- 23
How sea stars build materials that can see
engineering.upenn.edu · 17 points · Discussion
When engineers think about protective materials, like those used in packaging and support, they usually think about strength, stiffness and durability. But what if those same materials could also…
- 24
Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise
github.com · 16 points · Discussion
OpenClaw Machines Run as many isolated OpenClaw agents as you need, on hardware you own. OpenClaw Machines is an open-source platform for running OpenClaw in secure AI sandboxes on your own…
- 25
Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser
github.com · 13 points · Discussion
I created a simple CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab. There are services that transcribe music from Youtube videos into tabs, but they never work well enough…
- 26
How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website
littlelanguagemodels.com · 13 points · Discussion
Company A has acquired Company B, C, and D. How do we organize their sites, for multiple products with different audiences, while making it easy to find relevant product information and quickly…
- 27
Conway's Game of Life, in real life
lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 12 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 28
The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowers
garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com · 10 points · Discussion
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Show HN: I rewrote my 2012 self-signed cert generator in Go – cert-depot.com
9 points · Discussion
Back in 2012 I built https://cert-depot.com as a weekend project. Node.js + Express + jQuery, shelling out to OpenSSL for certificate generation. It worked but I eventually let it rot.…
- 30
Making your JITted Code known: Let me count the ways
wakelift.de · 9 points · Discussion
AOT Compilers It has been normal and expected for a long long time that any machine code they spit out would come with a bunch of metadata that is meant to be used by different pieces of the target…